Privacy Policy

Last Updated: June 5, 2025

Introduction

Welcome to Clutch Fire (clutchfire.site). This Privacy Policy outlines how Clutch Fire (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, protects, and discloses your information when you visit our website. Our website offers news, tools, tech blogs, digital services, lifestyle content, top stories, sports updates, opinion pieces, health information, world news, and business insights.

We are committed to protecting your personal data and respecting your privacy rights. This policy is designed to comply with international privacy regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

By using Clutch Fire, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information We Collect

We may collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our service to you.

Personal Data:

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address (for example, if you subscribe to a newsletter or contact us)
  • First name and last name (for example, if you provide it when commenting or contacting us)
  • Usage Data (see below)

Usage Data:

We may also collect information on how the website is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

Tracking & Cookies Data:

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information.

How We Use Your Information

Clutch Fire uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our website
  • To notify you about changes to our website or services
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our website when you choose to do so
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our website
  • To monitor the usage of our website
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
  • To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
  • For advertising purposes, including displaying personalized advertisements.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, Clutch Fire uses ‘cookies’. Cookies are small files placed on your device that enable us to remember your preferences and various other information. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.

Web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) are small electronic files that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertisements

Clutch Fire uses Google AdSense and may use other third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

  • Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Clutch Fire.
  • Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: https://www.google.com/ads/preferences/.

You can also opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of our third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices, as well as for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. Clutch Fire’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Clutch Fire aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you.
  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Clutch Fire relied on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

If you are a California resident, you are entitled to certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). These include:

  • The right to know. You have the right to request that we disclose what personal information we collect, use, disclose, and sell.
  • The right to request deletion. You have the right to request the deletion of your personal information collected or maintained by us.
  • The right to opt-out of the sale of personal information. Clutch Fire does not currently “sell” personal information as the term is traditionally defined. However, the use of some third-party advertising cookies may be considered a “sale” under the CCPA’s broad definition. You can opt-out of these potential “sales” by managing your cookie preferences as described in the “Cookies and Web Beacons” and “Google AdSense and Third-Party Advertisements” sections.
  • The right to non-discrimination. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests.

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

Clutch Fire does not knowingly collect any Personally Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13 (or 16 in certain jurisdictions). Suppose you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website. In that case, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to remove such information from our records promptly.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Clutch Fire. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let you know via a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: info@clutchfire.site